One of these projects is based off an idea that filmmaker Quentin Tarantino came up with, and was put into script form by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith.
During their time hashing this R-rated story out together, Tarantino evidently had a fun time writing the man who led Star Trek in its original incarnation, Captain James Kirk.
The Star Trek film series is in a weird place right now, as it was reported back in August that Paramount Pictures was deciding which of the three Star Trek movies in development would be chosen to follow up 2016’s Star Trek Beyond.